LAN Question?

[deantn]

Have a question about LAN.
Just got satellite internet service installed, supposed to be up to 150Mbps, only ethernet card is only good up to 100Mbps. Is there a way to get the other 50Mbps out of ethernet card or just get another card that supports 15oMbps?
Networking with laptop is down to 56Mbps but that is because of card so that is working ok for now but will probably update that with newer card to help speed it up a little too.

[Hitman]

Are you sure its not more like 150Kbs? 150mbps is pretty damn fast for an internet connection. Fast internet these days is like 3-5mbps.

[Dread]

I'd have to ask the same thing as Hitman. My cable connection was just upgraded to 10 Mbps, a friends satellite connection tops out at 224 Kbps,
and that only since he has a line-of-site to a booster tower about a quarter mile from his house.

[Panda Man]

Like so

[IMG*]http://forums.hardwarelogic.com/attachments/46/227d1177622362-lan-question-2007-04-26_172036.png[/IMG*]

Leave out the *'s

Everything looks fine to me. I really REALLY don't think you have a 150Mbps connection via satelite.

[Capper]

Thats the connection speed between your computer and the router/modem.

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

Originally Posted by Capper

Thats the connection speed between your computer and the router/modem.

Which will always be at that speed; few exceptions there though, which don't apply to you.

How fast can you download stuff? A 150MBps line would download about 24MB per second. Wouldn't that be nice?

[PrOLifIC_onE]

Your image is showing the maximum connection of your network card.. not that actual speed of your internet connection. You do not have 150M connection on satellite. T1 connections aren't even close to that.

So you do not have anything to worry about. Your satellite connection is slowing you down more than your network card is. If you want to test your internet speed, check out these sites or ones like them:

Bandwidth Place - Unique Telecom Solutions

Speakeasy - Broadband Voice and Data Communications

Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test

or google "bandwidth speed test" for more

[Mithosphere]

well it could be your internal network interface, like the ethernet port could and likely is a 10/100Mbps, so my guess is that you need a 10/100/1000Mbps aka a Gigabit port.

Oh yea and you aren't by chance getting some business plan or something like that, cause a connection speed that high kinda sounds like some service offered to companies and businesses, ya know since they always require faster connections than households.

[deantn]

This is what I got from Atlanta, was a little lower from Raleigh,NC but about the same.

[deantn]

Another from Dallas,TX.
No not for business, they get an even higher speed, think it is 200 Mbps for them.
This comes from a new satellite just getting set up by WildBlue, only problem I've had with them is instillation. Installer wouldn't mount it to side of home even though it is a 4x4 on corner of building. He just wanted to swindle me out of $100 to mount on pole, so fixed him and had it mounted away from home as far away as I could get it, limited to 150 ft of cable, that way cost him more for cable and tie offs to get it out of sight from road, he still wanted to put close to house but I refused to let them. Now after taking their online course will move it to side of home where I wanted it in first place. Very easy to get the dish aligned even though it is "narrow" beam.